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<h1>Categories dialog</h1>

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The categories dialog is used to add, edit and manage the <a href="02concepts.html#categories">categories</a> of the current wallet.
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<h2>Dialog call</h2>
This dialog can be called in the following way:
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<li>from the mainwindow-menu: Manage / Categories.
<li>from the mainwindow-toolbar.
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<h2>Using category dialog</h2>

<h3><img src="images/1.png"> Category name</h3>
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type a new category name here and press return to add.
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<h3><img src="images/2.png"> Subcategory name</h3>
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- select the category to add subcategory to in the category list<br>
- type a new subcategory name here and press return to add.
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<h3><img src="images/3.png"> Categories list</h3>
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display the category and subcategory, sorted alphabetically.
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<h3><img src="images/4.png"> Buttons</h3>
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      <td class="wname">Is income</td>
      <td class="winfo">when checked, this set the category to be an income category (for sort purpose).</td>
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      <td class="wname">Add</td>
      <td class="winfo">add category/subcategory if the relative category name is not empty.</td>
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      <td class="wname">Remove</td>
      <td class="winfo">remove the selected branch or categories, i.e. if a category is selected, all subcategories will be removed.
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      <td class="wname">Edit</td>
      <td class="winfo">open a dialog to edit the selected category</td>
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<h3><img src="images/5.png"> Buttons</h3>
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      <td class="wname">Import</td>
      <td class="winfo">Import and merge some categories from a csv file.</td>
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      <td class="wname">Export</td>
      <td class="winfo">export the entire categories list into a csv file.</td>
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  Please refer to <a href="06csvformat.html#cat">csv file format</a> for the file description.
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